Drivin' the RV with Nana

The Kids

Here is a picture of the kids from last Sunday

Sara Sleeps Well

Sara is sleeping very well. In fact, she has almost from the beginning. What I mean by "sleeps well" is that she typically falls asleep about 8:30 in the evening, sleeps until 2 or 2:30 am, eats, and then goes back to sleep until 5:30 or 6 am. That's pretty good for a newborn.

Seth, as I recall, was up every two hours for about six months.

I think part of the difference is that Debbie and I were listening for every little noise that Seth made when he was sleeping. We called it re-binkying. He would fuss a little then we would crawl out of bed and pop the binky back in. With Sara we have been allowing her to go back to sleep on her own when she is not needing to be fed. That has worked fairly well for her and I think she sleeps longer at night because of it. Also, Sara is much less reliant on the binky than Seth was. In fact, most of the time she doesn't want it and spits it out almost instantly, or cries in a "get that thing out of my face" way. We're good with that.

Father's Day

It's been a good Father's Day so far. The kids are napping now. I went over to M+D's to get some day lilies and then I fixed a broken phone jack.

Debbie made spinach quiche for breakfast. It was very good. Tonight we go back over to the parents for dinner.

Family Dinner

Cresses headed off on their next cross country adventure yesterday. They set out in the RV about 9:30 am and will do a lot of touring as they work their way home.

We sat down to dinner last night, just the four of us, and it occurred to me that this was the first time we have had dinner with our little family. It was good.

Travel and whatnot

Wait.. is "whatnot" actually a word? I wrote that title without thinking much about it. I was just going to do a quick post about my trips to Raleigh and Seattle. Then I got to thinking and whatnot (there it is again) and was wondering if was actually a word. Maybe it's just filler like yada yada, or blah blah or aaaanyway (which I really think means I'm sick of talking about this, but I don't know how to stop)

We spend a lot of time stuffing our writing and conversation with things like that. It gives us structure, and filler when we think too slowly, and clues to where the conversation might go and a way to include all of the stuff we want to say without really saying it.

I also notice that I pick up crutches every now and then. Word patterns that I use, but I'm not sure why.

EXAMPLES:

"The upshot of that is..." Huh? Explain what that means
"To be completely honest...: As if I was not being completely honest before
"In general..." especially useful for highlighting something specific

I'm sure I'll think of more after I post this.

Aaanyway, leave a comment with other crutches that you know, or use, or whatnot.